The well documented reduction in human's attention span in the past 2 decades iinfantilized us (sapiens). How for backwards will this process go?
Curing a zillion diseases just by fasting? The only big media outlet publishing this in February 2017 was BBC. No wonder. Bad for business (pharmaceutical and food industries) and hard to practice. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39070183
One night brief pit stop in a sea resort after a 2000 meters descent from some 'sacred' mountains. Breakfast time. Most tables are taken by families where you easily spot sad fathers who depressively travel with their wives and kids in their holidays because they were told that would be the ultimate happiness. They seem constantly ask 'wtf happened to me?', but there is something very noble in their acts of sacrifice. This useless paragraph is a tribute to them.
Many seem to think that the only way to finish the extreme rotteness of the current political establishment is to elect populist idiots that wouldn't`t be more than a parenthesis... just till quality people come back to politics. The problem is that the imbeciles being elected in this, lets hope, transition phase, might bring irreversible damages...
January 23, 2017.
January 23, 2017.
Human history is 13 million years long, but hardly anyone understands the importance of knowing what we were doing during all that time. Quick reminder on something: we were hunther-gatherers for the past 2 million years. This only ended 10,000 years ago - when agriculture was invented. Our genetics is still an adaptation and a response to the ocean of time in which we lived before we became boring/unhealthy/sedentary creatures yesterday, with the invention of farming, industry and great shopping in big malls! Not knowing or understanding this is completely missing the point of who we are and what we need to fulfil us.
Noticing how common people were again sick of traditional politics, opportunistic smart asses seized political power with even bigger lies that were, at least, more appealing to average stupidity. Whatever... politics, as anything else, is cyclic and there was no way to avoid just another gigantic wave of gregarious idiocy...
In reference to work, there are 3 kinds of people: a) those who work on what they like (very rare kind); b) those who don't work on what they like but fortunatelly have conscience of that; c) those who don't work on what they like but convinced themselves that they like the job they have. These are, unfortunately, the majority. These people live alienated and WORK on giving up themselves every single day. They dedicate most of their lives to become something they are not.
Most people don't change. They remain basically the same all their lives. Does this happen because there is an intrinsic nature that they can't overpass? Well, there is a bit of that, but that is not the main reason. People don't change because, at some point in their lives, they decide to stick to a perception of themselves that gives them safety! That gives them a f***ing refuge!
Keep tricking YOURSELF asking which story you are telling YOURSELF about YOURSELF and question it! Don't claim you are not telling any. Everyone does. Not even emptying your mind with meditation can stop that. There is always a personal narrative around. Sometimes thicker, sometimes thinner, but always there.
People say it is hard to catch up with the high pace life around us? I totally disagree. That is very easy. For that, you just need to do what everyone else does and be another nobody. Maybe an important nobody in the social fabric - with a 'high' position in it - but still a nobody because you bring nothing new! Paradoxically, what is actually hard is to 'catch up' with calmness and quietness...
Falling for someone: a narcotic climb followed by an idiotic fall, but worthy because flatness is tedious. Neurosciences compare it to the experience of crack cocaine, having even similar withdrawal effects, but it` s better to forget that option. Falling in love is more natural, not against the law, and usually less expensive... Hmmm not sure about the 'less expensive' bit...
Don't FAST FORWARD >> discomforting / recurring memories that, from time to time, surface in your mind. PAUSE || them instead! Walk calmly through them. Smile to them. Know them! They wouldn't keep coming back if they weren't important. Give them the time and attention you would give to a great movie you were about to watch; because that's what they are.
How many people do you love in a selfless way? If you have children, it's very likely that the list starts with them. But do you actually have a list? If you have, you will notice that you can't extend it or shorten it. It's what it is. It has a life of its own. Maybe it was a longer or shorter list before, but still you had never control over it or will ever command it. And as everything else you can't control, you should simply accept it and move on.
1- Uncontrolled human population growth is the main problem of this planet.
2- Uncontrolled population growth happens mainly in lower class families of underdeveloped countries.
The question is: as a middle / upper / governing class person in an underdeveloped country, why would you give a shit about uncontrolled population growth of lower class families if that gives you cheaper unskilled labor and perpetuates very convenient slavery?
INTERESTING NOTE in the HISTORY of SLEEP:
Before the industrial revolution humans were sleeping in a biphasic way. There was a 1st and a 2nd sleep. The 1st or deep sleep would occur a bit after dusk. It would last around 2-4 hours. After that, there would be a break of 2 hours in which people would socialize, meditate about their dreams or simply rest. A 2nd sleep (morning sleep) would then start - this would finish by dawn. Most of our bodies still have memory of this system and tend to go back to it. This is how we are still designed and will be for some time.
Before the invention of agriculture, which allowed us to become sedentary only 10,000 years ago, night sleep was even more segmented. We were preys and would have to be more vigilant. That's how we slept or didn't sleep for 99% or more of our history as a species. That's a mark / code / software we all carry.
Side note: How come do we know so little about what we do during about 1/3 our lifetime - sleep.
All religions in the history of mankind claimed to be the last and ultimate truth on God and divinity. All failed and were replaced after some time. That will never change. It's worth asking: what is the next big religion to fall? when will there be a new religion with the prominence of, by alphabetic order, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam or Judaism coming?
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